Joe wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Is there any way of knowing what the applet "Time.class" will do?
> > Just because it's named "Time.class" doesn't mean it has anything
> > to do with time.  (A Java program can be named *anything* to hide
> > its true intent, and could conceivably be planting all sorts of
> > nasty stuff including spyware).
> >
> > Is there a safe way to find out?
>
> You can download it, decompile it and examine the source.

But the source code produced wouldn't be Java, would it?
It would probably be some assembler-looking type of code, right?
(which would be rather difficult to read and trace).

Do you know of any decompiler that would, in effect,
convert a .class file back to a .java file?

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